Posted on 09/01/2025 2:41:32 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Pastors and activists Andy Oliver and Benedict Atherton-Zeman were arrested Friday night during the state's removal of St. Petersburg's "Black History Matters" mural.
Crews from the Florida Department of Transportation arrived around 8 p.m. to paint over the mural outside the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum, according to a spokesman for the St. Petersburg Police Department. That's when Oliver and Atherton walked past police, then sat and knelt down to pray in the road and refused to move "in an attempt to block the FDOT machinery."
They were both charged with misdemeanor obstruction and "Pedestrian obstructing or hindering traffic," according to SPPD's public information officer.
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Who were they praying to?
Marx and his mentor Satan.
I’m getting white liberal fatigue
No goat sacrifice?
Who approved of that mural in the first place?
I’m going to guess the St. Pete city council and mayor.
Correct.
We all are.
The Christian Insurrectionists that the media was praying for and they can’t even use them. (sad trombone)
....meanwhile 4 mothers in their congregation murdered their child in utero because these two were playing pride games and not helpibg them.
Black lives don’t matter to them, only their black-axed pride.
That is not a mural; a mural, by definition, is painted on a wall. Streets are not walls.
I’m sure you could get volunteers to work on Labor Day for this worthwhile project.
If I lived in the area, I would definitely help.
I looked at an aerial photo of that government sanctioned vandalism. Such an eyesore.
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